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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Eric Hoffer

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Creation Desire Inspirational Motivational Opportunities Talent Wisdom
Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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God Identity Perspective Religious
Anger is a prelude to courage.
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Angry Courage One Liner
The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.
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Country Government High Intellectual Power Production
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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Judgement Nation Nature People
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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Alone Country Easy History People
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
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Country Education Nation Present

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